Top 5 Kate Bush spoofs

With her unique voice and distinctive lyrics Kate Bush set herself up as an
easy target for parody. Since her heyday in the 80s she’s been the subject
of impersonations by comics from Steve Coogan to Noel Fielding. Here are
five of the best.

"People bought my latest hits, because they like my latex t***", was one of the best lines of Stephenson’s parody of Bush’s song 'Oh England My Lionheart'. Stephenson doesn't have the same vocal range as Bush, so Rowan Atkinson sang deep bass, obviously.

Fielding made it to the final of the Comic Relief talent show in February with his dance parody of Bush's video for her early smash hit 'Wuthering Heights'. He didn’t win, but his moves were impressively accurate.

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Steve Coogan’s painfully embarrassing alter ego Alan Partridge sung a medley for Comic Relief in 1999. His rigid moves and almost monotone voice are a brilliant contrast to Bush’s multi-octave warbling. And when he breaks into ‘Wowowowowowow’ ending in a shrill squark, it’s magnificent.

The Dutch comedian's 'Wuthering Heights' parody must have been inspired by Bush’s original video where she flaps and wafts her fingers an awful lot: ‘But now I have a new nail polish/ It still feels a little sticky and rough/ but that’s the disadvantage of waterproof, waterproof, waterproof’.

Although Faith Brown was never brilliant at impersonations, this particular video of her as Kate Bush is funny if only for the moment where she takes to the air on a harness while singing ‘Wowowowowowowow’. Wow was the second single released on Kate Bush’s second album Lionheart, released in 1980.